Timerman to present Malvinas case today at UN

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner met yesterday with Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman at the presidential residence in Olivos, to analyze Argentina’s official claim against the United Kingdom’s militarization of the Malvinas Islands, as mentioned in her speech on Tuesday.

Fernández de Kirchner met with Timerman with the goal of hammering out exactly how to draft Argentina’s claim, which the Foreign Minister will present before the UN Security Council today. Despite the official line that the two were “adjusting the details,” sources informed the Herald that the text was still at a very early stage.

Timerman will meet today with Ambassador Kodjo Menan, President of the UN Security Council, in New York, with the aim of formally presenting Argentina’s claim against the UK.

The Foreign Minister will also personally inform the President of the UN General Assembly, Ambassador Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, and the UN general secretary, Ban Ki-moon, “about the United Kingdom’s violation of close to 40 UN resolutions calling for dialogue between Great Britain and Argentina to peacefully resolve the conflict begun in 1833 with the military invasion of the Malvinas Islands.”

Timerman will hold meetings with the President of the Decolonization Committee, Ambassador Pedro Núñez Mosquera, and the representatives of Colombia and Guatemala, two Latin American countries that are non-permanent members of the Security Council.

Herald staff with news agencies